Great Recession? My Fault.

From one of the 400. To the other 399. The great recession is my fault. This was the news flash that dawned on me in January this year. Ok, its not just me, but it is the fault of somewhere between just 0.008% of the US population on the high side and 400 American individuals on the low side. It’s us, the tiny percentage of all Americans that are prolific inventors. As an inventing nation we are #1 with more that 60% of the patents worldwide. With that much raw material, we should be the manufacturing center of the planet, No? What if some percentage of American inventors suddenly picked up a new trait? Nationalism. What would our manufacturing base look like then? Since the 70s, there has been a search for why America’s great middle class of manufacturing has been destroyed to be reconstituted by our trading partners with their citizens. Is it the fickle US Consumer that ...